Metaphor Criticism Essay

Metaphor criticism would be my rhetorical method of choice. I selected metaphor criticism after reading the prompt above and saw an abundance of metaphors such as “stunning glimpse”, “dizzying height” and “journey to the top” just to name a few.

A metaphor within the paragraph that stood out is “journey to top.” The tenor would be “journey” and the vehicle is the “top”. I metaphorically thought about each leg of the Arch from a historical perspective. As a black man, the racial history that my people endured is very important to me. My reasoning behind why passengers return to the 1800s after traveling to the top via the south leg was because the south was laagering in comparison to the north with their treatment of blacks. For example, compare

According to textbook titled Rhetorical Criticism Exploration and Practice, fantasy theme “is designed to provide insight into the shared worldwide views of groups” (Foss, 2009, p. 97). Neither the narrative nor the pentadic criticism follows a similar angle or means of analysis. The textbook, Rhetorical Criticism Exploration and Practice, says narrative criticism allows individuals “to interpret reality because they help us decide what a particular experience is about and how the various elements of our experiences are connected” (Foss, 2009, p. 307) Fantasy criticism is grounded in the reality while narrative can either be reality or imaginative. The textbook says pentad criticism seeks to answer the question “What is involved when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it” (Foss, 209, p. 355)? Although all three methods use the same procedure when analyzing the artifact, analysis would vary because each method examines different variables. Another thing that tends to vary with the three methods of artifacts is how someone selects an artifact. According to the textbook, the selection of fantasy-theme states that where an artifact should be based on the idea of symbolic convergence. In a narrative criticism an artifact must be comprised of at least two events, events must be organized by time, narrative must include some kind of casual or contributing relationship among events in the story and narrative must be about a unified subject. In pentad almost any artifact works because almost any artifact